Africa Live Phase Two groundbreaking today

C.F. Jordan, the San Antonio construction company that built the highly-successful Africa Live exhibit at the San Antonio Zoo, will have a groundbreaking today on the second phase of the zoo project.

The American Subcontractors Association gave C.F. Jordan the “Project of the Year” award for Africa Live, the first phase.

Africa Live, which opened in January, features a trek through an African river area with close-up views of hippopotamuses and Nile crocodiles. It also featurs the Nanyuki Market, the zoo’s newest gift shop modeled after an actual street market in Africa and the Riverview restaurant.

The second phase involves adding more African plants and wildlife to the exhibit and creating a unique habitat for Colobus monkeys, Okapis and more. It is expected to open to the public in late 2009.